InterPhil: CFP: A Hidden Treasure
__ Call for Papers Theme: A Hidden Treasure Subtitle: Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in Avicenna’s “Minor” Works (rasāʾil) Type: 4th International Meeting Institution: Avicenna Study Group Département d'études moyen-orientales, Université d’Aix-Marseille Location: Aix-en-Provence (France) Date: 13.–15.9.2023 Deadline: 18.9.2022 __ This conference will continue the successful format of the Avicenna Study Group (three meetings in 2001, 2002, and 2021 with two volumes of proceedings in 2003 and 2004 and a third volume forthcoming) and will turn to another pivotal topic in the study of Avicenna and his philosophy: the papers will explore the corpus of Avicenna’s widely neglected so-called “minor” works and investigate their relevance for understanding Avicenna’s thought and influence, both on the Eastern and the Western intellectual tradition. The corpus of smaller treatises, tales, and letters on various topics attributed to Avicenna poses particular challenges both in terms of philosophical and philological analysis. In 2014, Dimitri Gutas (Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition, 2nd ed.) provided a revised list of works that included, alongside the well-known summae, also the lesser-known shorter writings. While the authenticity of some of these rasāʾil remains questionable, it is clear that they all shaped in different degrees the perception on Avicenna throughout the centuries and, thus, deserve more attention from scholars to bring to light their variegated history of transmission and reception as well as their value for understanding Avicenna. Many of these smaller texts remain unedited and discuss topics that are rarely studied or appear otherwise difficult to integrate into the systematic framework of Avicenna’s philosophy. They may enrich or surely substantiate our own view of Avicenna, while inauthentic treatises could provide important insight into Avicennian circles and later forgeries may have been sources of misconceptions and erroneous or otherwise peculiar readings among interpreters in history. Against this background, the fourth meeting of the Avicenna Study Group aspires to set a new standard in dealing with the important corpus of Avicenna’s “minor” works and welcomes rigorous and innovative contributions that could feature, for example: - editions, - translations, - manuscript studies, - historical reconstructions, - philosophical analyses, - new hitherto unknown or unlisted treatises, - comparisons with other “minor” works as well as - comparisons with the “major” works. As with the first three meetings of the Avicenna Study Group, the proceedings of the conference will be published. All contributors are expected to prepare their papers after the conference for inclusion in the volume prior to the subsequent – fifth – meeting of the Avicenna Study Group scheduled for 2025. The conference will probably have fifteen slots available for presentations, of which five are open to the call for papers. Each presentation will run for 45 minutes plus 30 minutes of discussion. Presentations can be held in either French or English. Early career submissions and submissions from members of underrepresented groups within the study of (the history of) philosophy are particularly encouraged. The following scholars have already confirmed their contribution: - Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) - Cristina Cerami (CNRS, UMR 7219 Sphère, Paris) - Mohammad Javad Esmaeili (Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran) - Dimitri Gutas (Yale University, New Haven) - Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, centre Paul Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence) - Damien Janos (A.v. Humboldt Stiftung/LMU Munich) - Jules Janssens (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven) - Meryem Sebti (CNRS, UMR 8230 Centre Jean Pépin, Paris) - Tony Street (University of Cambridge) - Nadjet Zouggar (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Iremam) Please submit your application via email, by 18 September 2022, to: andreas.lam...@ru.nl and olga.lizz...@univ-amu.fr Your email should indicate “ASG IV” in the subject line and your submission should include (as an attached file, Word or PDF) a short abstract of 300–500 words about your planned presentation and a CV indicating your name and preferred email address, your institutional affiliation, and your career stage. Selected participants will be informed by 3 October 2022. Costs for travel and accommodation will be covered. Organisers Olga L. Lizzini Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS-Iremam Email: olga.lizz...@univ-amu.fr Andreas Lammer Radboud University Nijmegen/CHPS) Email: andreas.lam...@ru.nl __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Are migrants entitled to vote?
__ Call for Papers Theme: Are migrants entitled to vote? Subtitle: On migrants' political inclusion through electoral rights Type: International Workshop Institution: Justice and Migration Research Group, KU Leuven Location: Leuven (Belgium) Date: 8.–9.12.2022 Deadline: 28.8.2022 __ Migration poses a challenge within democratic frameworks, in academia as in state practice. One reason why scholars struggle with justifying democratic inclusion (or exclusion) of migrants is the longeval tradition of conceptualizing the state as an independent unit whose citizens’ political views and conceptions of the good overlap and are discretely distinct from those that develop elsewhere. Much of the normative debates stems from the politico-philosophical tradition that would conceptualize migration and democratic inclusion as two independent areas of study. However, migration constitutes an ethically pressing, tangible example of what the fundamental question of democratic inclusion is about. This workshop seeks to gather and discuss possible approaches to the intersection of justice in migration and democratic theory. The theoretical challenges mentioned above have a number of practical implications. We are interested in questions that range from tackling those theoretical premises as well as their real world implications. We look for papers on the following or related topics: - Which tools does democratic theory provide to fruitfully approach questions of migratory justice? - How does the problem of the definition of the demos affect our understanding of territorial sovereignty and border controls? - Should electoral rights be approached through the prism of procedural or substantive democratic standards? How do different accounts of democratic legitimacy frame the permissibility of electoral rights differentiation between citizens and denizens? - Does the democratic culture of a country have legitimate consequences for migrants' inclusion? (e.g. do countries with mandatory voting have a stronger duty to include migrants? Should countries with a stronger tradition of public debate have higher language requirements?) - Should arguments from the perspective of migration justice be prioritized over democratic concerns? How does migration justice impact questions of democratic theory? - What if any should be the requirements (e.g. citizenship, residence, language proficiency) for political participation? - Should requirements for political participation change at different jurisdictional levels? (e.g. should such requirements be less strict at more local levels?) - What is the right place and form of political agency that temporary migrants are entitled to? For example, should they be able to participate in elections in their sending or host country? Or should they be steered towards other forms of political agency? - Should migrants with multiple citizenship be able vote (or run for office) in more than one country? - Are there categories of migrants that should have prompter access to electoral rights? Can this be the case, for instance, for political refugees? Or within frameworks such as the Commonwealth citizenship? This list is non-exhaustive, and submissions on related topics are welcome. Confirmed speakers - Arash Abizadeh (McGill University) - David Owen (University of Southampton) - Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) - Alex Sager (Portland State University) - Eva Erman (Stockholm University) Submissions We have space for three more external speakers on our program. If you are interested in participating in this expert workshop, please submit an anonymized abstract of no more than 500 words, along with an email including your name, title, and affiliation to: eleonora.dannib...@kuleuven.be The format of this particular panel is pre-read. Abstracts should therefore be developed into a full paper. Participants will be asked to give a brief (5-10 min) presentation of their paper as part of the 1-hour discussion session of their work. The deadline for submission is August 28th, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be provided by September 5th. Key dates Abstracts submission deadline: August 28th, 2022 Notification sent to participants: September 5th, 2022 Final submission of papers: December 1st, 2022 Workshop: December 8th-9th, 2022 Organizers Eleonora d’Annibale Helder De Schutter If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizer, Eleonora d'Annibale, at: eleonora.dannib...@kuleuven.be This workshop is organized as part of the “Justice & Migration” project, RIPPLE, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/justice-and-migration __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com
InterPhil: CFP: Food, Consumption and Climate Change
__ Call for Papers Theme: Food, Consumption and Climate Change Type: Fall 2022 Graduate Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas Location: Denton, TX (USA) Date: 8.–9.10.2022 Deadline: 12.8.2022 __ The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas invites submissions for its 2022 fall graduate conference. The conference theme is “Food, Consumption and Climate Change.” The inability of governments and private citizens alike to address the climate crisis demonstrates a need for new approaches to and conceptions of the complexity that is climate chaos. The old approaches are clearly not working; the stale debate between state and federal sovereignty captures the imagination of millions as the federal government of the United States loses regulatory power over emissions of private institutions. The language that informs the public of climate induced chaos continues to maintain a naïve optimism and irresponsibility. Hundreds of millions in the global north absolve themselves of any response-ability in their diets and the suffering that such decisions are predicated upon. This conference is asking for new ways of conceiving, imagining, theorizing, and implementing change to overcome the decomposing (putrefying?) debates of progressive neoliberal politics. This conference invites new and creative ways to conceive of and imagine food, consumption, and climate change at their intersections. As such, this conference is intended to be interdisciplinary, inviting numerous voices and disciplines to think on the complexities that these ongoing crises continue to announce themselves as. The keynote speaker will be Nathalia Hernández Vidal. She holds a Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago and is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy and Religion Department at UNT. Her work focuses on food sovereignty and climate change through the lens of environmental justice, feminist political ecology, and critical indigenous studies. Dr. Hernández Vidal is also an active member of the seed sovereignty movement in Latin America. The conference will also include a workshop by Samani Dr. Chaitanya Pragya, Visiting Professor at Florida International University, USA and Professor at Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, India. Her lecture and workshop is titled “Living Lightly on the Planet: Jain Philosophy and Practices for Reducing Accumulation, Moderating Consumption, and Letting Go of What Weighs Us Down.” Possible submission topics include: - Food Studies - Climate Change - Environmental Justice - Animal Studies - Philosophy of Water - Decolonial Thought and Practice - Indigenous Thought and Practice - Consumption of commodities/pollution/media - Cultural Criticism - Environmental Ethics - Environmental Aesthetics - Technology - Ecofeminism - Ecotheology & Green Religion Submissions of 500-word abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review. Accepted students will give a 20-minute presentation with a 10-minute Q&A. Submissions should be emailed, with the following information, by August 12th 2022: prgraduateconference...@gmail.com - Name - University affiliation - Current level of graduate studies Accepted presenters will be notified by late August. This conference will be held in-person and presenters are expected to present in-person. Any questions should be directed to: prgraduateconference...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Public Spaces, Private Places
__ Call for Papers Theme: Public Spaces, Private Places Subtitle: Constructing Race and Liberation Type: Interdisciplinary Conference on Race Institution: Monmouth University Location: Online Date: 4.–5.11.2022 Deadline: 20.8.2022 __ This conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the past, present, and future of space and place and their intersections with race and liberation. Contemporary social, political, and geographical discourses demonstrate the continued need to re-evaluate the differing ways in which race and identity impact our interpretation and use of place and space. What remains constant is the critical need to invest in strategies that will foster the development of just spaces and places that promote wide-scale liberation, which is essential for our collective futures. Therefore, it is crucial to examine questions such as: how do our constructed physical environments affect perception and emotion, resulting in various layers of meaning? In what ways do sociocultural meanings and contexts, as well as the overlapping boundaries of space and place, shift over time? How do various cultural, historic, economic, educational, and theoretical perspectives shape the current climate on these topics? How have communities and movements crafted spaces and agendas of freedom, accountability, and liberation? The Monmouth University race conference was founded in 2008 by Dr. Julius Adekunle and Dr. Hettie V. Williams. This conference has brought together scholars from more than fifteen U.S. states, four continents, and twelve nations. Robin D.G. Kelley, Tera Hunter, Jonathan Holloway, and William Sturkey have all previously served as keynote speakers for this event. This year, marquee speakers will include: Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper, authors of Fighting Time, and Darnell Moore, thought leader and author of No Ashes in the Fire. The Interdisciplinary Conference on Race program committee eagerly invites proposals from students, scholars, researchers, community organizers, artists, and teachers around the world on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference’s themes. Some examples of topics one could pursue under the conference theme include, but are not limited to: Public Spaces, Private Places: - Collective, public, and personal spaces - Mobilization/Displacement - Monuments, memorials, markers, museums - Social remembrance - Body/Embodiment - Intersectionality: sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism - Surveillance and policing - Gentrification, mapping, urban/rural planning - Preservation/Conservation - Schooling and segregation - Emotional labor - Heritage sites and sacred places - Digital/Virtual space and futurism - Climate justice - Generational trauma Constructing Race and Liberation: - Reparations - Engagement/Empowerment - Identity: constructed and lived experiences - Belonging/Inclusion/Exclusion - Ritual, rites of passage, celebrations - Social justice, activism, resistance and protest - Ethnic, cultural, or national identity - Liberation pedagogy - Authenticity, acculturation, appropriation - Multiple and layered identities: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, disability, religion - Creative practices: art, artifacts, comics, sequential art, visual culture, murals, street art, healing - Transnationalism, migration and diaspora - Indigenous ways of knowing and sovereignty - Neo/post colonialism - Movement building Formats - Organized Panels (3 to 4 panelists, one chair, and optionally, one discussant) – Individual papers, maximum of 20 minutes in length (panels of 4 have a maximum of 15 minutes in length per paper) - Single papers (not part of an Organized Panel) - Roundtables (between 4 to 6 participants) – 5-minute opening statements from participants and then conversational dialogue with one another and/or the audience - Workshops on specific teaching techniques or practices. (If you are interested in offering your workshop for continuing education credit, please indicate this on your proposal submission.) - Proposals for artistic poster displays and scholarly presentations To submit a proposal, click on the link below and complete the form. You will need to include the following: a maximum 250 word abstract, with title, for each paper, a panel title for organized panels, and a brief bio (250 words or less) for each participant: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchL8y2nxNK7VxpW2cdhk6rK_RqGF4EQOax0YydLM1KbKVonQ/viewform Closing date: August 8, 2022 Conference conveners Brooke Nappi Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology Department of History and Anthropology Monmouth University Email: bna...@monmouth.edu Hillary DelPrete Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology Department of History and Anthropology Monmouth University Email: hdelp...@monmouth.edu
